5 Day Embodied Freedom Retreat with Elephants in Thailand

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Chiang Rai, Mueang Chiang Rai District, Chiang Rai, Thailand
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Up to 3 in group
Date
May 11 - 15, 2026

Retreat Highlights

  • Deep listening that allows you to be fully understood
  • Deep, personalized healing and one-to-one attention/guidance
  • A true embodied shift in who you are
  • Open the door to a life that feels fully yours, as your freedom and self-worth return
  • Learning and healing from Baptiste's real-life experience

About this Retreat

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Details of this retreat

EMBODY YOUR FREEDOM AND CREATE A LIFE THAT IS FULLY YOURS.

With Baptiste and the elephants Mehoun, Melina, Mélanie and Gipsy.

Guided by real-life experience, deep inner work, and the grounded wisdom of the elephants.

An intimate initiation in the Thai jungle.

Maximum three participants.

THIS RETREAT IS FOR YOU IF

You feel the quiet call for something deeper, not more success, not more knowledge, but a truer way of being.

A life that feels fully yours.

You have already done inner work.

You understand your patterns.

You've grown.

And yet... Something still feels muted.

As if a part of your fire has dimmed.

As if you are functioning, but not fully alive.

You can sense the gap between who you know you are capable of being, and how you actually live, choose, love, create.

You are tired of living by other people's standards.

Tired of diluting your truth to be accepted.

Tired of shrinking your intensity.

You want your inner fire and your aliveness back.

You are ready to trust your own voice, even when it costs something.

And you want to do this in a deeply intimate setting, with only three participants, where the healing is precise, embodied, and tailored to you.

THE EXPERIENCE

In the lush Thai jungle, supported by four elephants, your system begins to slow down.

And then something unexpected happens.

Beneath the exhaustion, the adaptations, the fears... Life is still there.

As the weight of the past begins to release from the body, you stop reacting from old wounds.

You stop collapsing.

You stop over-adjusting to be accepted.

With that release, your deeper self comes alive, in your body.

You speak more directly.

You choose more cleanly.

You create without second-guessing.

You stop tolerating what diminishes you.

You feel yourself again.

Deeply alive.

Grounded.

Burning in a calm, real way.

Quiet fire.

Stable. Rooted. Unapologetic.

From that state, your external life begins to reorganize naturally.

Because aliveness changes what you tolerate, what you accept, what you create.

Relationships shift.

Opportunities align.

Boundaries become clear.

Your work becomes more authentic.

Your energy becomes coherent.

Not because you forced change.

But because you chose yourself.

THIS IS YOUR GATE TO
-The freedom and power to be fully yourself in every area of your life.
-Remembering who you are beneath the roles, the expectations, and the identities you’ve outgrown.
-Reclaiming your way of living, expressing, and creating, without shrinking, without copying, without asking for permission.
-Becoming the conscious creator of your life, where your reality is no longer something you react to, but something you attract from within.
-Manifesting from presence and clarity, not from effort, pressure, or control.
-A deep sense of aliveness, moving through you and around you, as if life itself is breathing with you.
-And the return of your inner fire, grounded, embodied, and fully alive in your body.

THE TRUTH ABOUT TRANSFORMATION

Most healing begins at the surface, and that is necessary.

You have already evolved.

And yet, you still feel the subtle tension between what you desire and what you actually allow yourself to live.

That tension is not failure.

It is a sign that you are ready to reach the roots, in the unconscious, in the body, in the nervous system, where your life is still being quietly shaped.

This retreat is designed to close that gap, from the inside out.

Gently. Deeply.

In a way that becomes part of you.

MY JOURNEY

I created this retreat from my own transformation. A few years ago, I was completely disconnected, living in my head, chasing money and external success, believing it would fill the emptiness I felt inside, driven by a deep but unconscious quest for freedom to finally create my life on my own terms. But it only led me to burnout, loneliness, and a loss of connection with myself, my body, and life.

What changed my life didn’t happen overnight, it was a path made of many steps, mistakes, realizations, and deep learnings. I tried, I failed, I misunderstood, I went in the wrong directions… and through all of it, I learned what truly works and what doesn’t, not in theory but through real experience.

Everything began to shift when I stopped trying to fix things from the outside and started reconnecting within: feeling my body again, opening my heart, and rebuilding a real sense of self-love and inner safety. Through this process, and through the grounded, powerful presence of elephants, I rediscovered what it means to be fully alive, embodied, and aligned.

This inner transformation naturally led me to meet my soulmate, and today we are in a committed, loving relationship, engaged and building our life together from a place of truth rather than need. I now live a life that feels simple, grounded, and deeply fulfilling, where I follow my passion as a healer, supporting others through powerful emotional and energetic work and sharing what I have learned through direct experience.

This 5-day retreat is the transmission of that path, guiding you step by step to reconnect with your body, understand your life journey, free yourself from what holds you back, create authentic relationships, and ultimately step into your power as a conscious creator, supported by deep energetic healing work that helps you release and transform from within.

TESTIMONIALS
Diana 🇦🇷 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
"Baptiste created a safe, deeply held container where I released trauma, limiting beliefs, and ancestral patterns through quantum healing, shamanic practices, and profound connection with the elephants. This retreat has had a lasting impact, I feel more empowered, embodied, and connected to my inner authority."

Ursula 🇫🇷 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
"I felt completely safe and witnessed as Baptiste guided me through my physical and energetic bodies in a session that was truly beyond words. The changes were already done the moment I left."

Maro 🇩🇪 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
"Baptiste's grounded and gentle presence made it easy to trust the process and sink into a deep meditative space that was both healing and uplifting on a soul level. I feel deeply grateful for the care and depth he brings to his work."

Morgane 🇫🇷 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
"In Baptiste's space I felt my grounding strengthen, my presence deepen, and my limiting beliefs dissolve — guided and supported in aligning with who I truly am. Where there were once veils of opacity, there is now clarity."

Bérengère 🇫🇷 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
"Working with Baptiste allowed me to integrate the foundations of my business from within my body, combining his technical skills with an extraordinary sensitivity. The healing was complete, gentle, and powerful — without the suffering of deconditioning."

Béatrice 🇫🇷 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
"Baptiste's immersion gave me the deep conviction that my business and I are fully aligned, and that my old barriers of resistance are finally dissolving. I came back reminded of what is truly precious."

Alessandra 🇨🇭 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
"Working with Baptiste wasn't work at all — it was a pleasure, filled with extraordinary gentleness, accuracy, and a rare ability to meet you exactly where you are. What he offers goes far beyond coaching; it brings higher energies into everything you create together."
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THE RETREAT EXPERIENCE

In the jungle of northern Thailand, where the mountains breathe slowly and the air is thick with life, we will spend five days returning to what is real in you.

Far from noise, performance and expectations, you will come back to your earthy essence, the version of you that existed before fear and conditioning.

Five days close to the Earth, to the elephants and to you, the real You.

Here, time softens.

Your nervous system slows down.

The jungle holds you.

The mountains witness you.

And the elephants; they meet you exactly as you are.

With the elephants, you will feel your heart opening again, not through effort, but through presence.

The armor gently loosens.

Emotions that were frozen in silence are allowed to move.

Love doesn’t feel like something you must give or earn, it becomes something you naturally are.

You will feel old wounds dissolving, not in a dramatic way, but in a quiet, organic way.

Like mud settling in clear water.

The elephants do not judge your past.

They do not rush your healing.

Their calm strength creates a space where your body finally feels safe enough to release what it has been carrying for years.

With them, your inner child feels safe.

Truly safe.

Free to be spontaneous, to laugh, to cry.

Free to exist without being corrected or evaluated.

In their grounded presence, you remember what it feels like to belong to the Earth as a living being.

The elephants embody a rare kind of wisdom: powerful yet gentle, immense yet tender.

Being near them awakens your own grounded strength.

A quiet confidence.

A freedom to be fully yourself without shrinking or proving.

And slowly, through their way of living, simple, present, attuned, you rediscover the beauty of life on Earth as it is.

Just breath, touch, sensation, connection.

During all this time, Baptiste will lead the quantum healing space, to guide and amplify the healing from the elephants.

Together, we will loosen the grip of the past and free you from external influence, so your real self can finally take the lead.

SOUL FRAGMENTATION HEALING

When something is too intense to be fully felt, your system protects you by disconnecting, unconsciously.

In these moments, parts of you freeze in time.

You keep functioning. But something essential is no longer fully here.

These missing parts were never meant to disappear. They are part of you.

But right now, they are stuck somewhere inside unprocessed experience. And from there, quietly, they are still running your life. Not from your highest self. From the moment everything shut down.

Your reality is being shaped not by who you truly are, but by who you became in order to survive.

HOW IT FEELS IN DAILY LIFE
-Present and functional, but not fully inhabiting your own life.
-Stuck in the head, struggling to feel or take aligned action.
-Repeating the same patterns different faces, same wounds.

You are not broken. You are partially disconnected, because at some point, it was safer not to feel.

And it doesn't only come from one dramatic event. It accumulates, in childhood, in relationships, in work, in the moments you weren't seen or chosen.

Because fragmentation isn't conscious, you cannot think your way back to wholeness.

This retreat is your opportunity to recover these parts of yourself, and with them, the sacred energies your soul has been carrying for you all along. The ones that were always meant to be yours. The ones that make you, fully, you.

THE SACRED PROCESS

I work directly with your soul, your higher self, and your body consciousness to:
-Find the fragments that separated in this life or before
-Heal the fragments and the emotions, thoughts, and physical imprints they carry
-Reintegrate them into your soul and body, where they belong

You may feel…
-A deep relaxation unlike anything you have felt before.
-A sense of coming home into your body.
-Warmth expanding through your chest, self-love as a felt sensation, not a concept.

This is the first step toward becoming at home in your higher nature — and allowing your reality to change in concrete ways.

When these fragments return to you, they bring with them everything they have been holding.

New ways of feeling, safety, joy, sovereignty, wholeness, as natural states of being.

And alongside them, your unique essence:
sacred arts and signature talents that were frozen with the fragment:
-Healing arts.
-Creativity.
-Skills.
-What makes your work and your life unmistakably you.

You are not receiving something new from the outside. You are receiving back your natural gifts.

It is your higher self that guides this process, calling its fragments home, bringing them back into you.

After the retreat, your higher-self is alive within you. It moves through you.

ARK JEWEL & MAVERICK

This work is not done alone.

Ark Jewel and Maverick are energetic structures discovered by my mentor Marie Imanence. They work through me and alongside me throughout our eleven days together, amplifying the depth of the healings.

Together they accelerate: soul and trauma healing, the dissolving of fixed identities, the embodiment of your own energy.

THE SACRED MEDICINE OF ELEPHANTS

When you stand beside an elephant, something in you remembers. What it feels like to be fully here. Fully in your body. Fully grounded in your own presence.

Their energy does not work through effort or mental concepts. It works through frequency.

Elephants carry an ancient, sovereign energy, calm, unshakable, free. So energetically powerful that your own body naturally adjusts. Your nervous system finds a new baseline. Your spine straightens. Your breath deepens. Your energy settles.

They gently go through your wounds and your resistances and return you to your own authority.

Around elephants, you don't collapse into your wounds. You rise into yourself.

You don't have to explain your pain or find the right words.

The elephants simply perceive you, and meet you exactly where you are.

They bypass the stories, the defenses, the need to understand.

It is a reset, of the nervous system, the fascia, the body's deepest memories.

You are being returned to your wholeness.

YOU GET TO PLAY AGAIN

With the elephants, something simpler and joyful becomes possible, movement that feels good, laughter that comes freely, delight without needing a reason.

It is what a nervous system feels like when it finally feels safe.

From that place, real creativity returns. Presence returns.

The energy that attracts, builds, and creates from your own inner fire.

YOU LEAVE WITH SOMETHING MORE
-A body that feels open, grounded, and fully alive.
-A clearer and bigger sense of who you are, beyond roles and survival patterns.
-A lived knowing of what you deserve, no longer negotiated.
-Self-worth, power, and freedom, embodied, not performed.

This is your entry into a new reality, built on aliveness, steady inner fire, and embodied authority that no longer asks for permission.

Schedule

Check-in: 8:00 AM / Check-out: 5:00 PM

THE RETREAT BEGINS BEFORE YOU ARRIVE

I will open the transformation space three days before the retreat officially begins, gently preparing your subconscious to receive the profound healing frequencies of the elephants and of me.

You'll already start feeling the shift before you even set foot in the sanctuary.

OUR DAYS TOGETHER

Daily Schedule: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM at the Elephant Sanctuary

The healings with the elephants will unfold naturally throughout each day.

Our priority is simple and sacred: to be present, to feel deeply, and to create beautiful memories during our time with these wise beings.

I will gently guide the retreat processes, while keeping most sharing, guidance, and integration work outside of elephant time (or during quiet moments).

This allows us to stay fully present with them: open, receptive, and in the flow.

This retreat is a living, organic experience. We will move with the energy of the group, the elephants, and the rhythm of nature, always honoring what feels most aligned in each moment.

THE DETAILED 5 DAY PROGRAM

This is a 5-day immersive journey of healing, identity shift, and embodiment.

Each day includes time in the jungle with the elephants, combining somatic healing, energetic work, and real-life embodiment.

DAY 1: EMBODIMENT / FULLY ARRIVING ON EARTH
Your body as your home, your anchor, your power

-Intention :
To feel safe, alive, and grounded in your human experience.

-What we explore :
-How to feel good on Earth, in your body and in connection with others
-Releasing discomfort, resistance, or rejection of the human experience
-How to bring your energy back into your body (taught by elephants)
-Reconnecting with your body as a place of presence, stability, and pleasure
-Understanding why embodiment is essential to manifest tangible reality

-Shift :
From disconnected / in the mind → to rooted, alive, and present in your body

DAY 2: YOUR DIVINE PATH / INNER TRUTH
Why you came here: beyond conditioning

-Intention :
To reconnect with the deeper meaning and intelligence of your life.

-What we explore :
-Reconnecting with your inner truth and unique path
-Seeing your life (childhood → now) as a coherent journey, not a series of random events
-Making peace with your past and integrating key experiences
-Understanding clearly who you are… and who you are not
-Releasing identities that were never truly yours

-Shift :
From confusion or fragmented identity → to clarity, alignment, and inner coherence

DAY 3: FREEDOM TO BE YOURSELF
Breaking the inner limitations

-Intention :
To liberate your authentic expression.

-What we explore :
-Healing and understanding the experiences that made you hold back or adapt yourself
-Identifying where you are still seeking validation or permission
-Redefining what freedom truly means in your lived experience
-Reclaiming your right to exist, express, and choose fully
-Stepping into your role as a conscious creator of your life

-Shift :
From adaptation / self-censorship → to authentic, free self-expression

DAY 4: RELATIONSHIPS / SOVEREIGN CONNECTIONS
Creating relationships from truth, not wounds

-Intention :
To transform the way you relate: with clarity, truth, and sovereignty.

What we explore :
-Understanding what real, grounded, conscious relationships look like in daily life, shared from lived experience, not perfection.
-Seeing clearly how past wounds and patterns shape your relationships
-Learning to create connections based on your true self, not unconscious needs
-Building clear, sovereign, and aligned relationships in all areas of life

-Personalized guidance :
If you are in a relationship → understand, realign, and deepen it
If you are single → prepare and align yourself to attract your true partner / soulmate

-Shift :
From reactive or unconscious dynamics → to clear, aligned, and nourishing relationships

DAY 5: MANIFESTATION / POWER & SOVEREIGNTY
Owning your power as a creator

-Intention :
To fully step into your personal power and create your reality consciously.

-What we explore :
-Becoming powerful and sovereign in your energy and decisions
-Releasing the influence of external energies, expectations, and projections
-Understanding manifestation as a result of alignment, embodiment, and clarity
-Embodying your king / queen energy in a grounded, real way
-Leading and creating in all areas of your life from your center

-Shift :
From being influenced or reactive → to fully owning your life as a conscious creator

The Healing Continues

Your transformation doesn't end when the retreat does.

I will continue holding the space for 3 days of integration after we part ways, supporting your subconscious and nervous system as they anchor these profound shifts.
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change

Getting Here

Location icon Excelsia, Chiang Rai, Mueang Chiang Rai District, Chiang Rai, Thailand

Directions

Meeting in Chiang Rai city center at 8am for breakfast on the first day

Accommodation

Nestled in the heart of nature, Rai Phuchat offers a peaceful retreat with stunning views of the surrounding mountains. Choose between private rooms or spacious villas, each designed to give you comfort and privacy during your stay. Every guest has their own room with a double bed and private bathroom. What's included: - Breathtaking views - Outdoor swimming pool - Large, tranquil garden—perfect for quiet reflection or morning meditation - Authentic Thai meals prepared by their in-house chef (meat or vegetarian options available at no extra cost) WiFi throughout the property This is more than accommodation, you can rest, restore, and reconnect with yourself in the stillness of nature.

Accommodation
Private double room price per person, including everything

Venue & Amenities

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Towels icon Towels
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Hot Tub icon Hot Tub
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Elephant Steps, a healing sanctuary for more than 600 animals and humans

Elephant Steps is a living sanctuary of rescue, healing, and coexistence for animals and for humans.

More than 600 rescued animals now call this place home: 4 elephants, dogs, horses, donkeys, cows, and many others who were abandoned, abused, injured, or left with no one to protect them.

Each animal is received, fed, treated, loved, and given the time they need to heal.

Meals

Menu Types

Tasty and fresh Thai homemade meals with local ingredients. With meat by default, vegetarian options available on request. Water and hot drinks included. Breakfast: thai food, fruits and hot drink.

What's Included

  • An intimate group (maximum 3 participants)
  • Baptiste and 4 elephants
  • A fully ethical elephant sanctuary
  • 3 days of energetic preparation before the retreat
  • 5 days immersed in the elephant sanctuary
  • 3 days of post-retreat integration support (WhatsApp)
  • 4 nights accommodation
  • 3 nourishing meals per day
  • Unlimited water, tea, and coffee
  • Pick up and drop off from chiang rai city center or airport
  • all activities

What's Not Included

  • visa
  • flights
  • alcoholic drinks

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